Box with hinged lid



Feb. 27, 1934. F. A. AMAN El AL BOX WITH HINGED LID Filed July 8, 1932 m m Z R T m ml m 0 m m M t. w a a 3 aw 9 Z 5 f r. n .m Aw, 7 lwiu .b 4 3 Patented Feb. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES BOX WITH HINGED LID Frank A. Aman and Henry B. Sandmann, Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio Application July 8, 1932. Serial No. 621,438

1 Claim.

Our invention relates to boxes having hinged lids, more especially wooden boxes such as cigar boxes and the like. Objects of our invention are to provide a rigid box structure and a strong lid not subject to warping, with effective closure between the box and the lid and with the lid hinged to the box securely, all by a relatively simple and inexpensive construction. A further object is to provide, with the very simple hinge connection between the lid and the box, for supporting the lid in upright position when open, dispensing with special means for this purpose. Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of a box with its lid closed, embodying our invention, a rear corner part being broken away and in section on the plane of the line l-l of Fig. 2.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is an end elevation of the same, with the lid open.

Figure 4 is a front perspective view of the same.

The box illustrated is made, throughout, of boards of uniform thickness. The front and rear walls 1 and 2 are of single thickness of these boards, and each end wall consists of an outer ply or thickness 3 and an inner ply or thickness 4. The bottom edges of the front and rear walls and both plies of the end walls are flush, and the bottom 5 is nailed to these edges. The front wall 1 and the outer plies 3 of the end walls are of equal height. The inner plies 4 of the end walls are extended above the outer plies 3, and the rear wall 2 and these inner plies 4 are of equal height.

The lid is made up of a front wall 6 and end walls 7, all of single thickness and of equal height, with their top and bottom edges flush, and the top 8 is nailed to the top edges of these walls. The lid has no rear wall, and its front and end walls 6 and '7 are only slightly higher than the extensions 4a of the inner plies 4 above the outer plies 3 of the box end walls, so that the upper part of the rear wall 2 of the box has its top edge 2a very close under the rear edge part of the lid top 8 when the lid is closed, and thus forms the rear closure of the lid. The end walls of the lid lie outside the top extensions 4a of the 'box end walls, in the vertical planes of the outer plies 3, and the rear end parts of these lid end walls 7 extend across the ends of the box rear wall 2 where it extends above the outer plies 3.

Nails 9 driven through these rear end parts of the lid end walls 7 into the ends of the box rear wall 2 form the pivots that hinge the lid to the box. These nails are approximately midway of the height of the lid end walls 7, so that when the lid is opened backwardly the rear edge 8a of W the lid top 8 engages the rear surface of the box U rear wall 2 close to the plane of the top edges of the box end wall outer plies 3. This forms a stop to support the lid in raised position when the lid is open. The front ends 41) of the box end wall top extensions 4a are cut away, preferably in curved form as shown, to allow the front wall 6 of the lid to swing down in front of these ends 41) as the lid is closed. A suitable hook or catch is provided on the front of the box for fastening the lid in closed position.

of the inner plies of the end walls, fitting inside so the end walls of the lid, form closed joints at the ends of the box and lid, and prevent movements of the lid across the top of the box, so that the two pivot nails 9 and the fastening at 10 and 11 are ample to hold the lid securely to the box. This also simplifies sealing of the box, as in cigar boxes, as it leaves only the joints at the rear edge 8a and at the front of the lid to be covered, with lapping of the covering over the corner joints of the lid and box. As compared 9 with cigar boxes in which the covering and lining are utilized to make the hinge between the box and its lid, our invention provides a stronger and neater hinge, which provides for supporting the lid in raised position, and avoids the necessity 9 of a lining.

Our invention affords these advantages particularly in cigar boxes and similar small light boxes, but it will be understood that it has advantages in larger, heavier boxes for other purposes, and also some modification of the construction may occur in adapting our invention to different uses. What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A box comprising a main lower portion with 1 front, back and end walls, the end and back walls upstanding above the main lower portion and the upstanding parts of the end walls being set in from the outer end surfaces of the lower portion, and the box being without upward extension of its front wall, so that it is open between the front ends of its upstanding end parts, a lid comprising a top, and front walls and end walls, its front wall closing the opening at the front of the box and the lid end walls straddling the upstanding parts of the box end walls and lying substantially in the space where said upstanding end parts are set in, when the lid is closed,'and the lid being without a back wall and being closed at its back by the upstanding part of the box back wall when closed, and pivots extending from the rear end parts of the lid end walls to the ends of the upstanding part of the box back wall, substantially midway of the height of the lid end walls, the rear edge of the top of the lid being substantially in the plane of the rear ends of the lid end walls and being adapted to engage the rear surface of the box when the lid is opened, to sustain the lid in a rearwardly inclined position.

FRANK A. AMAN.

HENRY B. SANDMANN, JR. 

